At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
— Richard M. Nixon
I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
I am not a crook.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Solutions are not the answer.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
